NFB Films about our neighbourhoods – Part 2

The Point. In English. 2006, 85 min 26 s.Description: The Point is a feature drama set in a multi-racial inner-city neighbourhood called The Point. Read more.
_____________________________The Point. In English. Pointe Saint-Charles. En français. 1978, 48 min 10 s.Description: Point St. Charles is a notoriously bleak neighborhood in Montréal, considered to be one of the toughest in all of Canada. Read more.

_____________________________The Point: Community Legal Clinic. In English.Citoyen nouveau : services juridiques communautaires. En français.
1972, 27 min 57 s.Description:Citizens of Point St. Charles, a bilingual district in Montréal’s inner city, found a solution to the lack of adequate legal aid in their community by forming a legal clinic with salaried lawyers and student volunteers from university law faculties. Read more.
_____________________________September Five at Saint-Henri. In English.À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre. En français.
1962, 41 min 36 s. Director/Réalisateur: Hubert Aquin.Description: Vignettes of life in a Montréal working-class district. Read more.
_____________________________Show Girls. In English. Les Girls. En français. 1998, 52 min 03 s.Description: Show Girls celebrates Montreal’s swinging Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s, when the city was wide open. Three women who danced in the legendary Black clubs of the day – Rockhead’s Paradise, The Terminal, Café St. Michel – share their unforgettable memories Read more
_____________________________Sitting in Limbo. In English. 1986, 95 min 19 s.Description:Full of gentle warmth and humor, and with an upbeat reggae score, this feature from the NFB’s Alternative Drama program provides an intimate look at the lives of four Black teenagers in Montréal. Some of the issues examined include poverty, teenage pregnancy, racism, and the importance of having a community.
_____________________________The Tin Flute.. In English.Bonheur d’occasion. En français. 1987, 06 min 56 s.Description: Adapted from the novel by Gabrielle Roy. Saint-Henri, Montréal, in the winter of 1940. It is here that we meet Francine Lacasse, a young waitress working to help her parents support their too-large family. Read more.
_____________________________Victoria Bridge: The 8th Wonder.. In English.Le Pont Victoria : 8e merveille du monde. En français. 1987, 06 min 56 s.Description: A succession of period graphics create a colorful collage depicting an almost forgotten moment in Canadian history: the construction and opening of Montréal’s Victoria Bridge. Read more.
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More NFB films about southwest Montreal see Part 1.

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[…] Little Burgundy. In English. 1969, 30 min 08 s. Description: When an old area of a city is to be demolished to make way for a new low-rental housing development, is there anything that the residents can do to protect their own interests? Read more. _____________________________ Long Ways to Go. In English. 1966, 28 min Description: Made with the help of the Union United Church of Montréal, this film dramatizes some of the more common rebuffs met by West Indian blacks as they look for work, a place to live, and a toe-hold on equal terms in the land of their adoption. The resolute mood of the black community is suggested in one sequence when they meet with a civil rights organizer. ————- More NFB films about southwest Montreal see Part 2. […]